Notices by Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

@demofox @BartWronski definitely. But my point is, in gamedev (or generally outside of "research"), many of these things are not because someone wanted to find a theory; they are because someone wanted to save half a millisecond. I'm 99% sure stochastic mip sampling happened in gamedev only because of in a virtual texturing system manually doing full trilinear is very costly. Someone had an idea of random mip choice, and went "hey that does not look too bad!" and so it shipped.

@demofox @BartWronski which again is why I'm very happy for paper like this (and a handful of others) that "bring industries together". I think Bart mentioned it too, but many graphics people are blissfully unaware of most of signal processing things done by audio people, for example. It might be useful! (or it might not, lol)

@BartWronski @demofox "What do you mean games already do robust temporal multi-frame super-resolution???" is funny. It goes the other way too though, like half of all the ECS stuffs within gamedev are along the lines of "ok so you've invented an extremely limited relational database, right" and they go "what's a relational database?" :)

P!nk 🍎

Ok, the fact that the "AI" (NPU) chip controller inside Intel's new Meteor Lake CPUs uses SPARC instruction set (from 1990?) was not on my bingo cards for this year. https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/22/intel-meteor-lakes-npu/

Current project size breakdown:

- 6kb misc images
- 15kb executable code
- 96kb one blue noise texture
- 3150kb music track

Size budgeting is my passion!

@barrelshifter hereby I present you this:

@Tak stop half-assign work, start fully-assed work!

Seriously tho, I find ChatGPT useful for exact this case: I need some throwaway thing in a language/API I’m not familiar with. Ie it’s a replacement for what used to be “copy from stack overflow”. It’s great at least for that!

Two largest unsolved problems in computer graphics? 1) computers, and 2) graphics

Holy shit, waking up to a spambot flood. Luckily most of the spam accounts were from just several domains, so added some domain blocks, and now close to 1000 spambots should be suspended. But geez.

Mastodon would benefit from somewhat better moderation/spam addressing tools. Most of what exists now seems to be geared towards dealing with problematic individuals, not with "there's a thousand automated accounts posting tens of thousands of mentions in minutes".

“Optimizing the unoptimizable: a journey to faster C++ compile times” by @vitaut https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/faster-cpp-compile-times/

Nice to see my cute hack of -ftime-trace that I added to clang some 4 years ago being useful!

You ever get the feeling that your own shadow is badly filtered?

@Natanox at this moment threads is not among the servers that are suspended here, yes.

[well, besides the fact that threads simply does not work at all in this part of the world, but that’s not directly related]

I found a side scroller

@mtothevizzah inclement is just increment that goes to the left

@forrestthewoods not sure if it’s “gamedevs”, or just general view towards anyone mentioning c++. So it’s basically this:

"temp feature" <...> "14 years ago". Yup, checks out -- the best way to ensure anything stays alive forever, is to mark it as "temporary feature/hack" :)

(found in #blender video sequencer related code)

Sunday #mosstodon

Neat: SmolSharp, a way to (mis)use C# native AOT compilation to produce very small executables. There's a C# OpenGL water rendering demo in under 8 kilobytes. https://github.com/ascpixi/smolsharp